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"It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven."
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"Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?"
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"Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that's the light."
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"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."
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"If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing."
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"Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!"
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"There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell."
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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."
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"There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!"
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"If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation."
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"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."
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"Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places."
Power
"But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship."
Man
"The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true."
Wisdom
"Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island."
Nature
"Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age."
Age
"The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind."
God
"For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all."
Living
"Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus."
Mythology
"When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus."
Woman
"Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth."
Truth
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